The Knitting Nannas Against Gas made a splash on social media several years ago when they started setting up teatime, knitting needles in hand, at coal mining sites throughout Australia. The Knitting Nannas knit, educate, and protest the environmental destruction. This group of women crafts hats,…

Sayraphim Lothia wants you to make you happy. In fact, she wants that so much it has become part of her body of work, a part which she calls guerrilla kindness. But how she arrived at it, like most things, was due to several things in…

Magical things can happen when you combine electronics, technology, and textiles. Mexican artist Amor Muñoz trained to be a lawyer, but her interest in art and social justice led her down a very different path. Rather than seeing Amor in the courtroom, you are more…

Education. Curiosity. Compassion. Three elements that embody Kathryn Clark’s work. At times it’s hard to watch the news given the state of the world, with its constant hum of war, famine, death, and sadness, it’s at once hard to look too closely at and hard…

Kat Thorsen is a therapeutic art facilitator and craftivist. She specializes in arts-based programming for at-risk youth and young offenders and her aim is to use art to heal and build connections. Her interactive projects encourage participants to become part of the creative process. This post takes a…

Morning in Gothenburg. Challenging myself to follow “rules” through an old, traditional Swedish stitch called #anundsjösöm. A photo posted by Garnapa (@garnapa) on May 29, 2015 at 12:02am PDT You know when you are scrolling through Instagram and you come across photos that you instantly…